there are now 4 eggs. I am so happy to see the egg production up from last year at most of the nests.
April 6th William Osler Hospital another egg this morning.
the second egg was laid sometime overnight.
The first egg has been laid over the weekend at William Osler Hospital.
William Osler Etobicoke General Hospital have completed their name the chick contest. So here are their names and band numbers C over 21 is named Luna, C over 22 named Whisper, C over 23 is named Willow and C over 24 is named Bolt. All have successfully fledged and are flying well.
Rob checked the chicks at Etobicoke General William Osler today and found all 4 high and safe. two on the Main Hospital and two on Etobicoke Wellness Centre.
Some good news today on several fronts! I visited Wiliam Osler Hospital today for two reasons,, the first was to finally be able to do a factory reset the live CPF nest cam so we canmove forward with getting you all with a live cam update on the nest broadcast to the CPF web site.
As many were unaware, we have had a live-streaming nest camera viewing the William Osler nest site for many years, but the live real-time streaming video image was only viewable on the colour monitor within the maintenance area at the hospital, primarily for live internal viewing to help us and the hospital manage the nest. Today, Scott and I were able to factory reset the camera that will allow us to reprogram it and get it broadcasting to the www. With the support of their ITT folks, we should be able to get the live streaming nest images out to the CPF website and viewable to the worldwide audience. While I know that we will missed seeing the complete nesting season (this season),, our expectations is that we well finally have the nest camera broadcasting live soon!
On another note, the four peregrine hatchlings have very little white down fluff visible now and we can expect that they should be fledging sometime this weekend. While there was two males and two females, they all look ready to go very soon! All four hatchling (now completely all brown with their juvenile feathering) were way down on the furthest south east corner of the nest ledge (furthest from the nest tray).
This was the only way we could have dealt with the camera, as we needed the hatchlings all mobile and out of the nest tray before we dared to open the hatch directely behind the nest tray were the camera is installed.
All in all, a sucessful endeviour,, with a successful factory reset of the colour camera, Scott was able to access the real-time colour live streaming nest image on his internal computer down at his office. No longer will they have to go up floors to the mechancial area to see when there are eggs, incubation and hatches. Hopefully soon, we’ll all be ableto see the live nest images fromyour home computers via the www!!
4 chicks all healthy. There were 2 boys and 2 girls the females have band number C 21 and C23 red tape on one and Green on the other, the 2 boys bands are C22 and C24 with Yellow on the first and Blue on the other.
The Hospital is running a name the chick contest among the staff so we will announce their names once we have them.
Thanks to Scott Payne at the hospital for setting this banding up and for keeping an eye on the camera for the hatch. We are working with them to try to get the camera images up on our web site and I will keep you posted when it becomes available.
Also thanks to Mark Heaton, Mark Nash and Cathy Smith who were our banders today great job!
Etobicoke General Hospital has 3 chicks as of April 24th.
Resident female laying down in nest tray today likely on eggs